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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:19:19 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice and legacy VGA drivers
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To: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
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Izik Eidus wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:25:00 -0600
> Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>
>   
>> How does this work?
>>
>> Does Spice only work with QXL or can it also work with Cirrus and 
>> std-vga?  Does it degrade into basically a framebuffer based
>> protocol? How does it encode the bitmap data in this mode?
>>     
>
> It work with std-vga
> It send bitmaps using the dirty bit from kvm/qemu
>   

How does it compress the bitmaps?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori